Book Club at the MFA
Thu Feb 13, 6:30 PM - Thu Feb 13, 7:30 PM

In 2020, the Book Club at the MFA joins in the national celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women in the US the right to vote. Join us for an exciting monthly reading and discussion centered on topical issues and themes universal to all: empowerment, artistic and creative excellence, and the push for equality for all.
Feb 13 @ 6:30–7:30p, Free with Admission ($10 on Thurs after 5pm)

February: A Wild and Precious Life, is a posthumous memoir by celebrated LGBTQ icon Edie Windsor, who passed away before her book was completed. Windsor’s fight for federal recognition of her marriage to Thea Speyer went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the resulting victory in 2013 felled one of the last remaining obstacles to marriage equality. Their 40 year romance and struggle for federal recognition of their marriage, was documented in the poignant film Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement. A star computer programmer at IBM in the 1950s and 60s, Windsor founded a tech consulting company and created a scholarship to help fund coding education for LGBTQ students.